💬 Quotes

"I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me open and it would slide out, warm and wet, and I would be better for it."

"You can’t just walk away from your life. You have to burn it to the ground."

"I was a little girl who lived through a massacre. People want you to be a certain kind of victim. They want you to be soft and wounded and hopeful."

"There are people who spend their lives waiting for the other shoe to drop, and then there are people who spend their lives trying to drop the other shoe."

"The truth is a hard thing to get a grip on, and most people are happy enough to let it slide right through their fingers."

"Poverty is a character trait. You think it's a lack of money, but it's a lack of options, a thinning of the soul."

"She had no patience for people who thought they could treat her like a victim. She was a survivor, and that was the only thing that mattered."

"The past is a stubborn thing. It doesn't disappear just because you want it to; it waits in the shadows, ready to strike when you're at your weakest."

"I’m not a victim. I’m an independent woman who has decided to live her life on her own terms, regardless of what the world thinks is appropriate."

"There are people who believe that every problem can be solved with enough information, and then there are those who believe that some secrets are better left buried in the dark."

"Trust is a luxury I cannot afford. In my experience, people are either incompetent, malicious, or both."

"He realized that the search for truth was not just a job for him—it was a moral imperative, a way of balancing the scales in a world that was fundamentally unfair."

"Halfway down the stairs is a stair where I sit. There isn't any other stair quite like it."

"I have a house where it rains, but it doesn't rain on me. I have a house where the wind blows, but it doesn't blow on me."

"I do think that as I am a bear, a very small brain, and long words bother me an awful lot."

"But now I am six, I'm as clever as clever, so I think I'll be six now for ever and ever."

"So I think I shall go for a walk, and perhaps I shall meet a bear. Or perhaps I shall meet a friend."

"There are some people who like to be busy, and some people who like to be quiet, and the world is better for both."

"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever."

"It was an unlikely love, and he was an unlikely man, but in the end, it was the only love that ever mattered."